SET3
SET3
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Read the instructions carefully and answer the questions.
3. Marks of questions are indicated against it.
4. Answer must be complete and to the point.
Section 'A' (30 Marks)
1.A. Read the following passage carefully and Answer the questions given
below:
What is required on the part of our youths is a keen sense of
participation in what Jawaharlal Nehru used to call "the great adventure of
Nation building". There is no room for cynicism or defeatism boredom or
depression. In what ever position our youth may find themselves, there are
always numerous avenues for national service. These may not be such as to
hit newspaper headlines, but it is solid and devoted activity multiplied a
million fold that truly builds the fabric of a great nation.
Questions:
(i) What is required on the part of our youth? 1
(ii) What has no room in the adventures to of Nation building? 1
(iii) How the youth can work for the Nation? 1
(iv) Make verb from the 'participation' and defeatism? 2
B. Read the following stanza carefully and give the answers of questions,
given below:-
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(i) On the basis of what you have read, write the character sketch
of Swaminathan?
(ii) What were the reasons of animosity between Mani and Rajam?
(iii) Write about Sankar's qualities as a student?
Q.7 Answer any two questions- 3+3 = 6
(i) How did Mani and Rajam, instead of fighting become griends?
(ii) Describe swaminathan's feelings when his friends called him
fail and stopped talking to him?
(iii) How did swamiathan his little brother to the pea?
(iv) What change did swaminathan observe in the father's behaviour
towards him before the examination?
Q.8 Answer (any one) of the following questions. 9
(i) Write a critical appreciation of the play "The Silver box".
(ii) Write a Note on the dramatic Significance of the unknown lady
episode?
(iii) What Short comings of the British Judicial system emerge out
of the play?
Q.9 Answer any two of the following questions: 3+3= 6
(i) What is the dramatic significance of the conversation between
Mrs. Jones and her husband?
(ii) Give an account of the way silver box was recovered from
residence of Johnes?
(iii) Write in your own words the proceeding of the case of the two
little girls in the court?
position so the moral of the story is that one must not give up hopes.
One should have wish to do good. One should make efforts for
betterment through night ways. 6
(ii) Out of this gloom and fear about an unsafe future. The poet prays for
safety of her new born daughter. He thinks that the only pressure
should is to inculcate some inner virtue which will give comfort to his
daughter. If his daughter can have some virtues that would make her
strong, but he has not prayed for any Christian Virtues for his
daughter. He has only wished for certain abstract qualities like
innocence, freedom, kindness and gladness. He has not mentioned
have. There qualities built up. The poet has expressed his faith in
tradition and ceremony. But in a world of changing values it may be
very difficult to preserve them under the stream of modern
civilization. The poet is rather idealistic. The poet wants once her
daughter to lead a life of happiness and prosperity. 6
(iii) The last ride together is a dramatic monologue and it shows Browning
at his best. In the handling of this poetic from. It has also been called a
dramatic lyric because it is not an expression of his own personal
emotions, but that of an imagined character. It is spoken by a lover
who loved his lady over along period of time and who after making
him wait, for so along finally rejected him. The lover than prayed to
her grant request of his first that she should remember his love for her,
and secondly that she should come with him to a last ride together to
his great joy the lady consented. 6
This poem is dramatic monologue the lover is pouring out his
emotions, actually in front he seems to be talking to himself in
loneliness. He analysed his own courting and persuasion of his
beloved and its ultimate result, but instead of getting disheartened
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(ii) It was really very shocking for them to loose the Necklace. They were
nervous. They looked along the folds of mathilde's skirt of her cloak,
in her pockets and every where but all in vain. The necklace was no
where loisel made all his efforts. He followed the cab, he went around
the ministers house. He went to police head quarters, to the news
paper offices to offer reward. He did all but could not find the
Necklace. 4
(iii) The poem ode to Autumn' presents Autumns vivid images. The poet
personifies it in fair images - as a winnower, as a reaper, as a gleaner
and as a cider - presser. Autumn is seen as a women who performs the
task of winnowing reaping gleaning and cider pressing. First we can
see women that is Autumn into the fields engaged in the winnowing
operations, while breeze ruffles their locks off hair. Secondly, we see
Autumn in the form of a reaper, who has been engaged in roping corn
but who in the course of her work is so overcome by the sleep
inducing small off poppies. Thirdly, Autumn can be seen in the image
of a gleaner who is walking along steadily with the weight of grains
upon her head crossing a stream. Finally Autumn may be seen in the
image of a women who is crushing the ripe Apples in the wine press
to obtain their juice from which sider is to be made. This women site
by cider-press and watches patiently. The Apple juice flowing out of
the press drop by drop. 4
(iv) Patriotism is one of the important dimensions that a youth must
acquire. By patriotism the outer means the deeper patriotism which
transend all pettiness and exclusively which creates in our youth a
deep urge for National acuity and progress. The author feels that our
Nation and galvanize the whole process of our economic
development. 4
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Instructions:
Ans. to Q.3, (i), (ii), (iii) (iv)
3 marks for correct content
1 mark for correct structure.
Section - 'B' (10 Mark)
4. (i) C.V. 1
(ii) Two. 1
(iii) Uncertain, certainly. 1
(iv) (a) 1
(v) Encyclopedia. 1
(vi) hope. 1
5 (i) The tea is so hot that we can't drink it. 1
(ii) The teacher said that Man is Mortal. 1
(iii) Did the students do their home work in time. 1
(iv) The paddle of the bicycle on which. 1
(v) Character is made by good manners. 1
(vi) No sooner had he seated himself than he was called for his
breakfast. 1
Instructions:
Answer 4, 5
1 mark each for correct answer.
Section - 'C' (30 Mark)
6. (i) Swami is the central figure in the Novel and the action has been
looked at through out from his point of view. To this extend one
would be justified in calling him the hero of the Navel, but he is an
'unheroic hero' one who has nothing heroic in his character by and
large he is a passive character who does not act but is acted upon who
has no control over his circumstances, but is controlled by them.
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Instructions:
Ans. 8 (i), (ii), (iii)
5 marks for correct content
2 marks for correct structure.
2 marks for correct spelling.
9. (i) Mr. and Mrs. Barth wick discuss the conduct of servants in a holistic
note, she complaint that servants have started talking too much liberty.
She cities the example of maid servant of lady Holy rood. The maid
used to call her lover to meet her at her employers house. When lady
holy rood told her to go she demanded one months salary. The
discussion reveals the attitude of all masters towards their menial
servants. 3
(ii) When Mrs. Jones detects the stolen purse she thinks to return it to her
employers so when Jones is out she shakes out his coat. The silver box
falls down form the coat pocket. She looks hard at it but Jones
snatches it from her hands with a promise that he would throw it away
into the river along with the purse on the other hand when Barth wick
finds the box missing he asks snow a detective to search it snow out of
doubt comes to Jones was house Just at the time when Jones trying to
take the box from his wife who takes it to return it to Barth wick snow
detects the letters J.B. curved on it and is sure it was stolen one from
Barth wicks house. 3
(iii) The silver box is based on the theme of social economic and legal
evils. It focuses on the sufferings of the poor families as a result on
unemployment and poverty.
The introduction of the two little girls shows how children suffer the
most when homes break livens can not find a job. So his wife leaves
him and her daughters. He puts them in his sisters house. But she too
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cannot feed them. Finally they are sent to a home for destitute
children. The episode is very relevant to the theme of the play. 3
Instructions:
Ans. 9 (i), (ii), (iii)
2 marks for correct content
1 mark for correct spelling.
Section- 'D' = (15 Marks)
10. (i) Liberty. 1
(ii) Absolutely. 1
(iii) Increase. 1
(iv) Description. 1
(v) Chaos will be created in the society increasing misery and
oppression of the rest. 1
(vi) According to lord Action "The passion of equality made vain
the hope of the liberty". 2
(vii) Elites democracy and dollar democracy means that either this is
controlled by the educated class or by the capitalists. 2
Instructions:
Ans. 10 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
1 mark for correct answer.
1 marks for correct content.
1 mark for correct structure.
11. (i) Those people who fight for their country are called brave. 1
(ii) Hallow'd mould means the grave where the dead fighter is
buried. 1
(iii) Fairy hands means hands of angels. 1
(iv) A patriotic poem. 1
(v) Return. 1
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Instructions:
1 mark for each correct answer.
12. Notice
Attention to the students and staff. 5
This is to bring to your notice that I have lost my purse some where in
the play ground on the annual sports day. It is of navy blue colour.
Any one who finds it please submit it to the common room office or
inform me.
I shall be to him/her.
Sukhvinder
Class Monitor of XII
Instructions:
Proper format 1 mark.
Proper content 1 mark.
word limit 1 mark.
Or
70 Alwar Marg, 5
Rajdhani Niwas
Bhopal
To Health Officer
Sir,
I would like to draw your kind attention towards the unhygienic
conditions of my locality in which we residents are forced to live, it
would be good enough on your part to come and survey the area and
peep into our grievances and take some remedial step.
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The area where I reside is the most unhealthy street of the area,
here a large number of cattles are tied as a result it is not only difficult
to pass but also a breeding place of mosquitoes and flies.
The resident of some of the blacks too heavy rubbish all about the
street, knowing well that no sweeper ever visit this area. If the
authorities do not take any immediate step. Some terrible epidemic
will likely attack this colony. I therefore appeal to you to take
immediate measure and remove our grievances.
Hoping for the best.
Yours Faithfully
Prof. Anita Rajput.
Instructions:
Add & lute - 1 mark.
Salutation - 1mark.
Body - 2 marks
Subscription - mark.
13. Essay is an attempt which gives expression to one's thought on a
given subject. It is to one's thought on a given subject. It is to one's
thought on a given subject. It is a written composition in well
arranged paragraphs. It deals with one particular subject. Students at
school level are not required to write elaborate essays in which great
learning and loftiness of language is required. It is enough if they can
write English in clear, simple and correct style. 10
Instructions:
Presentation - 2 marks.
Main body - 4 marks.
Accuracy - 2 marks.
Conclusion - 2 marks.